With her smile painted on his mouth

He walked out of the town called Blog Watching…

Catholic Ragemonkey: Blogrolling these priests. Lovely post on the Annunciation: “For today’s homily at Mass, I reflected upon the seeming incongruity between the season of Lent and the Solemnity of the Annunciation. Lent stirs up thoughts of penance and sacrifice and struggle. The Annunciation is a moment of exquisite joy because the long-awaited redemption of Israel is announced, is under way. It looks badly matched if one looks no deeper than the surface of the events. But if we pentrate into the inscape (a word coined by Caryl Houselander, a contemporary English theologian), we see the true threads of what is beginning here.” more!

They’ve also started an online Catholic book club. Current reading: Meditations Before Mass by Msgr. Romano Guardini.

Cinecon: Another Maya Deren fan! I was not so much fond of her moviemaking–just her book on voodoo–but Cinecon makes me want to see “Meshes of the Afternoon” again. “MESHES is clearly a dream about something or other that can be unpacked and debated at the espresso bar later, but *while the film is unspooling* it has near-perfect dream logic (which isn’t at all the same thing as wtf incoherence). The images are recognizable and cogent but don’t quite look right or are followed by a scene that cannot follow it logically. Obvious motifs (like the knife) are dropped in and call so much attention to themselves that they become structuring principles and unite the narrative discontinuities and impossibilities. The movements of Maya throughout the film (the garden, the stairs) are repeated, slowed down and/or speeded up for emphasis (the way Maggie Cheung moves and the way Wong Kar-wai uses her in IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE’s Yumeji sequences is heavily indebted to Deren in MESHES). …It’s like a Salvador Dali painting come to life.” (I wrote about Deren’s book Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti here.)

Also, he watches “Eyes without a Face” and makes the obvious contemporary parallels. I think he’s trying too hard for a genre separation between science fiction and horror, though.

Midwestern Conservative Journal: Gay Anglican Bishop headline contest. Via Cacciaguida. As you might expect, some of these are… uncalled-for. But many are hilarious. Some of my favorites: Gay Anglican Bishop Enjoys Being Gay Anglican Bishop; “I’m Gay, Anglican, and a Bishop,” Says Gay Anglican Bishop

President sends Gay Anglican Bishop as peace ambassador to Al Qaida

“Gay Anglican Bishop Ordains First Openly Muslim Anglican Priest”

“Gay Anglican Bishop Reveals Results of His ‘Quizilla’ poll”

Spring Break Shocker! Gay Anglican Bishop parties in Cancun with Dalai Lama

Gay Anglican Bishop Takes Queen’s Rook

And last: Gay Anglican bishop gets bent out of shape over new pew.

(sorry.)